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Manager, Project Procurement
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Pelzer, Anderson County, South Carolina, 29669, USA
Listed on 2026-09-12
Listing for:
Vertiv
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
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Supply Chain/Logistics
Procurement / Purchasing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Serve as the dedicated procurement lead for one or more large, strategic data center customer projects, acting as the single point of contact between Procurement and the project team.
- Proactively identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle, including supplier capacity constraints, long lead times, technical maturity, single-source dependencies, quality risks, and logistics constraints.
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans in collaboration with Engineering, Project Management, Manufacturing, Materials Planning, Quality, and suppliers to eliminate identified risks.
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules, ensuring alignment with customer milestones and on-time delivery commitments.
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization, such as multi-sourcing strategies, suppliers’ capability development, early material commitments, multi-manufacturers, inventory and buffering strategies.
- Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
Job Description
- Serve as the dedicated procurement lead for one or more large, strategic data center customer projects, acting as the single point of contact between Procurement and the project team.
- Proactively identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle, including supplier capacity constraints, long lead times, technical maturity, single-source dependencies, quality risks, and logistics constraints.
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans in collaboration with Engineering, Project Management, Manufacturing, Materials Planning, Quality, and suppliers to eliminate identified risks.
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules, ensuring alignment with customer milestones and on-time delivery commitments.
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization, such as multi-sourcing strategies, suppliers’ capability development, early material commitments, multi-manufacturers, inventory and buffering strategies.
- Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
- Identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans for identified supply-related risks
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization
- Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, industrial engineering or operations management.
- MBA or a Master´s in Supply Chain or Operations is a plus.
- Minimum of seven years in supply chain and/or procurement roles.
- Procurement & Supply Chain Professional Training is highly desirable (CPSM or equivalent)
- Project Management Trainings is highly desirable (PMP or equivalent)
- Advanced Excel, Power Point, Word, Power BI.
- ERP and MRP familiarity (Oracle, Cyberplan)
- Speaks English fluently
- 7-10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain or materials management within a manufacturing or industrial equipment environment.
- Strong experience in identifying, assessing, and preventing supply risks across internal operations and external supplier networks.
- Demonstrated success in designing and driving preventive supply risk strategies.
- Experience managing and mitigating risks related to supplier capacity, long lead times, single-source dependencies, technical readiness, quality, and logistics.
- Experience preparing and delivering structured, executive-level reports and dashboards covering supply risks, mitigation plans, progress status, and preventive strategies.
- Practical experience working closely with manufacturing operations and materials planning to support production ramp-ups, schedule changes, and demand volatility.
- Ability to multi-task and manage many different priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- 25% travel required.
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